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...appears to be in some jeopardy. Across the U.S. there are reports of a dire shortage of toilets. Hospitals, homes, schools and office buildings, habitable in all other respects, still stand idle because their bathrooms have not been completed. One of the reasons for the shortage is a recent ten-week strike that shut down the major manufacturers of vitreous china, the substance used in the construction of toilets. But another problem is the soaring demand for bathrooms. While there were 35 home toilets per 100 Americans in 1960, the number increased to 42 in 1970 and continues to rise...
...Atmosphere. After two years of congressional debate, 3,460 legislative man-days of hearings, and a ten-week stalemate in House/Senate conference committee, the legislators have now worked out a compromise. It gives most of the money to the roads, but mass-transit forces have scored what they consider a significant breakthrough. The bill, which is expected to be approved by Congress this week, provides for spending $20 billion over the next three years and preserves the trust fund inviolate through fiscal 1974. But beginning the following year, a portion of the highway fund will be freed for mass transit...
...precedent for the Harvard baseball team travelling abroad was set in 1934 as the Crimson took a ten-week playing tour through the Pacific. The trip included games in Hawaii, several Pacific islands and Japan...
TROELL CHRONICLES the migration of eight impoverished Swedes, from their emotionally cramped life in the rural province of Smaland, to their gradual disillusionments with that life; from their ten-week voyage to America to their initial settlement in Minnesota. He follows two main groups: the family of farmer Kari Oscar Neilson, and the religious cell of a preacher-sansordinance, Danjell (uncle of Kristina, Neilson's wife). Both groups are directly impelled to emigrate by personal oppression on the part of their overlords (the sheriff, the constable, the deacon, the churchwarden...
...dorms, expanding the gym, and adding 25 teachers to the present 275-member faculty. Under the new system, only the freshman year is traditional, fall to spring. After that, Dartmouth now requires simply that a student attend at least one summer term; he can take his other seven ten-week terms at any time he wishes, either at Dartmouth itself or at 27 other study centers in the U.S. and abroad...